Finally, with the use of hacking though, I have my (almost) perfect set-up for playing Mega Drive on my N95, landscape mode and using the media keys as gaming buttons.

First, with the recently outed MagicKey (from the most excellent opda.com.cn forum) you can remap certain phone keys to other funcions. Example: You can make the 5 key print 4 on screen. But the real treat in this app is the possibility of remapping otherwise hardwired keys, like the media ones. So you can make the media keys look like normal keys to picodrive.

Once you got that app signed and installed, use it to create a new keymap, assign it to picodrive.

When creating new pairs, press the green send key to go into select mode. It’s pretty straight forward once you figure that out. =P In my case I use the 4, 5 and 6 keys to play in portrait mode, so I’ll map the media keys to those:

When you’re done with that, don’t forget to set the daemon to open at boot:

Restart the phone afterwards.

Now, with the media keys properly set, time to set Picodrive. Pico can’t show a reverse landscape image while the whole UI is rotated (ex. when you open the media slider). You need to force the phone to stay in portrait mode with RotateMe, and use pico settings like this:

Now that you got the media keys out still in portrait mode, you can finally enjoy the wonders of true landscape gaming.

Seems like quite a bit of work just for playing some games eh? But Mega Drive emulating is serious business =P

…now if only those media keys weren’t so flat, lol.